Welcome To The Table

A long drive, an audiobook, and three ideas that explained more about systemized Christianity than I expected.

The damage report has been handed down as the design document. It is time to read it for what it is.

The Bible is tangible and inspired at once, and pretending either side away is its own kind of avoidance. From Genesis forward HaShem offered direct relationship through the davar placed qarov, in mouth and heart; from Genesis forward we built mediating systems to keep the directness at a manageable distance, and the architecture has been the same on both sides of the family.

How knowing God as Father reshapes identity, breaks generational patterns, and restores what was lost.

This is a followup to the study of the word of God [rhema theou] as the sword of the Spirit in verse 17

You cannot save them. You can be whole before Hashem first, and from that place decide, with a clear conscience, when to stay and when to walk.

A Jewish friend texted me about a page I had written. She asked about Genesis 15. Then it hit her deep. And I realized she was not the one being taught.

A Hebrew reading of what translation did to the God Yeshua knew.

Part three of a three-part Berean walk through "once saved, always saved." Five verses, original languages. Isaiah 53, Romans 3:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, and 1 John 2:2. The text speaks for itself.

Before a man leads anything, he listens. The Shema is not a prayer. It is a covenant loyalty oath.

Romans 11, penal substitution, and the cage men built around the gospel.

Part two of a three-part Berean walk through "once saved, always saved." The framework that built the modern altar call traced back to an eleventh-century archbishop, and five places in the Hebrew text where it does not belong.

Most men have not grabbed the crown. They put it down. They walked out of the room, or never walked in.

The Hebrew word behind 'saved' means rescue, not legal acquittal. A root study tracing yasha from the Red Sea through the Gospels, naming what penal substitution changed, and documenting the psychological wreckage it left behind.

Jacob Hotchkiss is a house-church pastor from Springfield, MO whose union-with-Christ theology runs deep and whose Torah questions run honest.